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In reply to Roderick T. Long. I think it’s wrongheaded, but I don’t think it’s bizarre. If you focus insistently on what’s wrong in Aristotle, and bracket what he gets right, you’ll find what you’re looking for. Ther…

The Williams quote is indeed bizarre, given not just Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, but so much of his other work, which seems very much in a Greek virtue-ethical tradition. LikeLike

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When I first read Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics maybe thirty years ago, I was both puzzled and disappointed by his discussion of the moral virtues in Book IV–generosity, magnificence, friendliness, wit, and so on. They seemed a waste of space. A whole book on this? What were such banalities doing in a classic work of moral…

Lovely piece. As ever, I sincerely enjoy reading your writing. I hope the upcoming year is full of blessings. LikeLike

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